US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on Feb. 24 for "Data management and encryption in a distributed computing system" (British, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,895, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Data management and encryption in a distributed computing system" was invented by Mehdi Collinge (Hainaut, Belgium), Alan Johnson (Maldon, Great Britain) and Omar Laazimani (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing a secure service at a computing node is described. The secure service is for a requesting party external to the computing node. The following steps take place at the computing node. A service request is received from the requesting party. This service request comprises a request to generate a credential. The credenti...